In most states, you pay taxes only on the actual lease payments, so leasing can put you even further ahead (see number 3 below). Plus, you typically don't have to bring cash to the table for a lease.
Q&A. The differences between an unadjusted trial balance and an adjusted trial balance are the amounts recorded as part of the adjusting entries. Adjusting entries include the accrual of revenues that were earned but were not yet recorded, and the accrual of expenses that were incurred but were not yet recorded.
A trial balance is a statement and it has got a conventional format of its own. It is not a Ledger Account. A trial balance is prepared to check the mathematical/arithmetic accuracy of accounting. This is the only (main) purpose of the Trial Balance. Since it is anyhow prepared for a purpose, it is put to some other uses like being used in the preparation of final accounts etc.,